Dissension in Ranks

In the South particularly, but also in conservative areas of the West and Midwest, Democrats run for the US House and Senate touting their conservative bona fides. They claim to be fiscal and/or social conservatives or pretend a concern to reduce abortion on demand or uphold gun rights. Instead of Democrats gaining three (now two, as Specter has revealed his inner-donkey) Republican votes in the Senate to pretend bipartisanship on a phony stimulus bill (the bill is real enough, it is the stimulus that is phony), it is long past time that the Republicans put these so-called "Blue Dogs" on the spot, particularly in the most vulnerable districts. Former NFL flop, Heath Shuler from North Carolina might be turned to vote against some of the Obama outrages. Perhaps one of the Virginians can still be persuaded. The country can neither afford nor long endure this manufactured, stagecraft, smoke and mirrors Presidency, with a public option national care and a finish us off cap and trade to go along with a deluge of spending that may well include another round of fake stimulus. Are the moderate Democrats going to vote with their constituents or with the dinosaur media flacks with their manipulated polls and advocacy by Tim Johnson and Nancy Snyderman meant to gut their own profession (medicine) and deprive new doctors of the freedom to select specialties they enjoyed? Are they Blue Dogs in Congress or Obama's lackey lapdogs?